Getting to the Core of Curriculum—and the Community

Getting to the Core of Curriculum—and the Community
Jones, Sian
2016-06-09 00:00:00
Sex Roles (2016) 75:285–286 DOI 10.1007/s11199-016-0643-9 BOOK REVIEW Detection and prevention of identity-based bullying: Social justice perspectives. By Britney G. Brinkman, New York, Routledge Press, 2016. 144 pp. $160.00 (hardcover). ISBN-13: 978-0415719520 Sian E. Jones Published online: 9 June 2016 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016 Over the past 10 years, the level at which researchers examine policies in place by law in schools. Perhaps, Brinkman argues, school bullying has been critically appraised, with a number this lack of adherence is because these policies were not co- of new voices stepping away from the more traditional focus created, and thus are not owned by the communities to which on the pathology of the perpetrator, target, or on the role of the they pertain. What is needed are communities where everyone is engaged in reducing identity-based bullying, and in address- bystander towards more holistic approaches that take account of the group dynamics that underpin bullying on school play- ing the social systems that allow for it to thrive. According to grounds worldwide. These researchers conceptualize bullying her social constructivist model, adults are just as much poten- not as a dyadic problem, but rather as one for which resolution tial bystanders
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